Published: Sep 28, 2012 By: Foodmate Team

Krill oil firm Aker BioMarine has restructured its sales team after reporting strong international growth.

Published: Sep 28, 2012 By: Foodmate Team

Times are tough for the beer category as increased competition from other alcohol segments and economic struggles continue to take their toll on the beer industry.

Published: Sep 28, 2012 By: Foodmate Team

Happy Family, a US-based organic food brand, has launched seven new vegetable-based products for babies and toddlers.

Published: Sep 28, 2012 By: Foodmate Team

US food company General Mills is voluntarily recalling Almond Nature Valley Sweet & Salty Nut Granola Bars as the products may have been packaged incorrectly, and may contain allergens that are not listed on the box’s ingredient label, specifically peanut

Published: Sep 28, 2012 By: Foodmate Team

US-based Kraft Foods has announced that it is on track to complete a three-year initiative to reduce sodium by an average of 10% across its North American portfolio by the end of 2012.

Published: Sep 28, 2012 By: Foodmate Team

The U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) today unveiled a new online Electronic Consumer Complaint Form where consumers can report problems with meat, poultry, and egg products.

Published: Sep 28, 2012 By: Carina Perkins

ConAgra Foods has become the latest US company to announce that it is banning the use of sow stalls in its pork supply chain.

Published: Sep 28, 2012 By: Elaine WATSON

What do teenagers want? Kraft, which has just launched a gum targeting this demographic, believes it has the answer.

Published: Sep 28, 2012 By: Mike McGinnis

After sinking to three-month lows yesterday, continued weakness of demand and favorable weather for a strong U.S. harvest pace will pressure the CME Group corn, soybean and wheat markets to start Thursday's trade.

Published: Sep 27, 2012 By: Foodmate Team

Domino's new Handmade Pan Pizza went through three years of development and features fresh dough hand-stretched into the pan -- unlike many other pan products out there, which are frozen.

Published: Sep 27, 2012 By: Foodmate Team

As an environmental health scientist, and as a mother of a toddler with another baby on the way, I closely followed the recent media flurry on the health benefits of organic versus conventional foods following the release of a study by Stanford University

Published: Sep 27, 2012 By: David R. Chan

How American Chinese Food Came To Be

Published: Sep 27, 2012 By: Andy Morton

Premium beer production in the US is to increase at twice the rate of the overall industry over the next four years, according to a new just-drinks report.

Published: Sep 27, 2012 By: Foodmate Team

Food Informants is a week-in-the-life series profiling fascinating people in the food world. We hope it will give you a first-hand look at the many different corners of the food industry.

Published: Sep 27, 2012 By: LYNN ELBER

The question of the moment at 700 pioneering McDonald's restaurants: You want TV with those fries?

Published: Sep 27, 2012 By: Joe Satran

A recent survey of grocery shoppers commissioned by Whole Foods Market gives new credence to a belief that's taken hold in the sustainable food movement over the past few years: when it comes to consumer preferences, local is the new organic.

Published: Sep 27, 2012 By: Foodmate Team

There are awards of all sorts for products and marketing, but Contessa Premium Foods made the news this week because its rescue from bankruptcy last year won a Transaction of the Year award from the Turnaround Management Association.

Published: Sep 27, 2012 By: Foodmate Team

Fried seafood with reduced fat? It's not just a fish story. Researchers at Oregon State University have been working on a project that drastically reduces the fat content in fried seafood using fish protein found in surimi.

Published: Sep 27, 2012 By: Foodmate Team

One of the latest health kicks is soft-serve fruit -- frozen fruit that is pureed until it reaches the consistency of soft serve ice cream, but with a fraction of the calories.

Published: Sep 27, 2012 By: Foodmate Team

Shrimp, most of it frozen, was the most popular seafood in the United States last year, at 4.2 pounds per capita -- up from four pounds even the year before, according to the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS).